A NAVY FOR INDIA
BILL BEFORE THE LORDS SECOND BEADING CARRIED (Ry Radio) RUGBY, April 28. The House of Lords to-day passed the second reading of the Indian Navy ’Bill, which has already passed the House of Commons. Lord Birkenhead said that the Bill -aimed at the development of the Indian Navy from the existing nucleus of the Royal Indian Marine Service into an instrument which, though primarily designed for Indian naval defence alone, would be fitted to take its part as one of the groups of overseas navies, coordinated by common tradition and a ’common basis to Imperial naval m- ' terests. Simultaneously, by making possible the creation of an Indian Navy it would bring Indian naval defence into its proper place within the system of the Indian Constitution. Viscount Haldane supported the Bill and pointed out that strategically it seemed proper that India should have a navy of her own. For military purposes India was really an island.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 7
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